Flat Top Goblin

Description

I mostly paint the desert badlands of the Colorado Plateau, I’ve been hiking this land since I was eight years old. It is my refuge. I’ve always been drawn to it. The desert requires unique temperament and vision to appreciate its’ desolate beauty. It is rich in subtleties, sharp contrasts, wonders, dangers and offers expansive solitude. My work offers hints… …fragments… …odd juxtapositions. I don’t make sense, I make paintings. Collectors who have lived with my paintings for a period of time tell me they view and experience desert badlands differently now. They see more color, more detail and beauty when they return to the desert.

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Born in Canada and raised in Utah, Royden’s main inspiration and focus has been the red rock landscape. He captures the impact of the desert in small Zen-like black and white woodcuts and intensely colored acrylic paintings which convey the majesty of the badlands.

Royden received his BFA and MFA form Brigham Young University and there taught printmaking for 16 years. He also occasionally taught art classes for the University of Utah and Utah Valley State College.

His works are held in university and private collections nationwide, including the Smithsonian Library, Special Collections (Artist Books) in Washington DC. From 1989-1992 the State of Utah honored recipients of the “Governor’s Award in the Arts” with a collection of Royden’s woodcuts.

Since 1996, Royden devotes his time to painting & printmaking. Recently his paintings have become larger in scale and his palette more colorful. He is the author of “Desert Drawn”, a collection of prose-poetry & sketches.

Royden currently makes his home in St. George, Utah, surrounded by the desert from whence he derives inspiration & imagery.

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Established in 1980, Worthington Gallery is inside a historic pioneer home that was built in the 1880's. We feature over forty local and regional artists, including Lyman Whitaker Kinetic Wind Sculptures made out of Utah sourced copper. We provide shipping nationwide & and shipping for kinetic art is available internationally. Read more about us.

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